47-32-18: Sprocket Cotter Pin
FAA order 47-32-18 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Sprocket Cotter Pin. It names Bellanca 14: about 282 aircraft on the U.S. register today, though an order usually covers particular versions or serial numbers rather than every one. System: other and general.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
- Models
- 14-13, 14-13-2
- On this site
- Bellanca 14 282 registered
Dates and paperwork
- Docket
- Unknown
- Status
- Current
- The FAA's document
- Read the order on the FAA's site
The order itself the regulatory text, as published
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47-32-18 BELLANCA: (Was Service Note 1 of AD-773-5.) Applies to Models 14-13, 14-13-2 Serial Numbers 1075, and Up.
Compliance required prior to October 15, 1947, and after each 25 hours of operation.
Remove the washer and cotter pin from the clevis bolt which holds on the aileron idler sprocket located at the top center of the control yoke and back off the sprocket. Lubricate the entire bearing surface of the clevis pin with oil. Reinstall sprocket and washer, and safety with new cotter pin of same type (AN 380-3-3).
(Bellanca Service Bulletin No. 9 covers the same subject, and the installation of a grease fitting to avoid removing the sprocket.)
Source: FAA Dynamic Regulatory System, airworthiness directives. The FAA's document is the authority; the register counts are this site's, from the FAA register of November 6, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/47-32-18.json · aircraft systems.